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Clemson Tigers football
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The Clemson Tigers, known traditionally as the Clemson University Fighting Tigers, represents Clemson University in the sport of American football. The Tigers compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the team is known for its storied history, military academy origins, distinctive helmet, fight song and colors, as well as the many traditions associated with the school. The Tigers most recent ACC championships came back-to-back in 2015 and 2016, the latter with a 12-1 regular season, the Tigers have 41 bowl appearances,18 of which are among the New Years Six Bowls, including 2 during the BCS big four era. Clemson has finished in the Final Top 25 rankings 31 times in the modern era, the Tigers play their home games in Memorial Stadium on the universitys Clemson, South Carolina campus. The stadium is known as Death Valley after a Presbyterian College head coach gave it the moniker in 1948 due to the many defeats his teams suffered there. Currently, it is the 16th largest stadium in college football, Clemsons streak of six consecutive 10 win seasons ranks 2nd in active streaks behind the Alabama Crimson Tide. The Tigers have had 13 total seasons with 10 wins or more, Walter Merritt Riggs can be characterized as the Father of Clemson Football, as he brought the game with him from Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The fact that Auburn and Clemson share the same mascot is no accident, Riggs allowed his players to pick the team mascot and, although he may have influenced their decision, the players chose Tigers because Princeton University had just won the national championship. Riggs helped organize and coach the infant Tiger team in 1896, with little money to spend on uniforms, Riggs brought some of Auburns old practice uniforms with him, which happened to have orange and navy jerseys. Because the jerseys had gone through a few washboard scrubbings, they were quite faded, so Riggs made the schools predominant color orange and the faded condition of the navy became the purplish color, officially known today as Regalia. The team played as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, when the Tigers traveled to Greenville on Halloween to play Furman in their very first match, only Coach Riggs and backfield player Frank Thompkins had ever seen a football game played. Today in Clemson, the field is named Historic Riggs field after Walter Riggs. Riggs took the team to a 2–1 record in the inaugural year and he then stepped aside at the urging of the military cadets/students, who felt that he should concentrate on his scholastic duties rather than coach the team for free. William M. Williams coached the Tigers in 1897, guiding them to a 2–2 record, the team beat South Carolina for the first time and was state champion. In 1898, John Penton led the Tigers to a 3–1 record, Riggs overall record of 6–3 gives him a.667 winning percentage. He served until his death on January 22,1924 while on a trip to Washington. Riggs hired John Heisman to coach Clemson, Heisman stayed only four years at Clemson, where he compiled a record of 19–3–2, an.833 percentage, the best in Clemson football history. In four seasons, he had three SIAA titles, the season had various other firsts, including the schools first defeat of the Georgia Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide

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Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association was one of the first collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. Twenty-seven of the current Division I FBS football programs were members of this conference at some point, the SIAA was founded on December 21,1894, by Dr. William Dudley, a chemistry professor at Vanderbilt, at the Kimball House in Atlanta. Dudley was a member of the Vanderbilt Athletic Association, formed in 1886 with Dr. W. M. Baskerville as president, most students at Vanderbilt were members. The early sports played on the Vanderbilt campus were baseball, bicycling, Dudley was primarily responsible for the formation of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Sewanees opposition stopped it from occurring, the original members were Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Sewanee, Vanderbilt, and Virginia. Virginia and North Carolina soon dropped before the inaugural 1895 season, the conference was originally formed for the development and purification of college athletics throughout the South. In 1903, a single-game football playoff occurred, but it seems to have been coordinated more so by the two competing schools than the conference itself, several other efforts over the years by individual schools to hold a conference title game fell through. Most SIAA titles claimed by schools in sports were actually more mythical in nature than officially sanctioned by the league. In 1915, a disagreement arose within the conference regarding the eligibility of freshman athletes, generally, the larger universities opposed the eligibility of freshman players, while the smaller schools favored it. As a result, some of the universities formed the Southern Intercollegiate Conference. At the conferences annual meeting on December 10,1920, the SIAA rejected proposals to ban freshman athletes, in protest, some schools that had voted in favor of the propositions immediately announced they would seek to form a new conference. In 1922, the Southern Conference underwent an expansion and added six more members, all at the expense of the SIAA, Florida, Louisiana State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tulane, and Vanderbilt. With the departure of most of the colleges, the SIAA became a de facto small college conference in 1923. In the 1920s and 1930s, the SIAA increased its membership with the addition of additional small universities. The conference eventually disbanded in 1942 with the onset of American involvement in World War II, original charter members are denoted in boldface. Invited charter members are denoted with an asterisk, in the era in which the SIAA operated, teams tended to join in December, therefore, the first year of conference play in a given sport was often the following calendar year. Conference affiliations reflect those for the 2016–17 school year

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Riggs Field
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Riggs Field is a 6, 500-capacity soccer-specific stadium located in Clemson, South Carolina. The stadium is home to the Clemson Tigers mens and womens soccer teams and it has also hosted the NCAA Mens Soccer Championship in 1987. The stadium opened for soccer in 1980, and was renovated in 1987, previous to this, it hosted a variety of the schools athletic teams, including the football team from 1915 until 1941 and the baseball team from 1916 until 1969. It is named after Walter Riggs, the coach of the football team. Riggs Field is the fifth oldest collegiate athletic facility in the nation, a new baseball field was later laid out on an area of campus separate from the previous sports complex, and expanded tennis facilities replaced the former diamond. Riggs Field now generally refers to the eastern portion where the football team played until 1941. The cinder track was eliminated during the remodeling as a soccer venue and it is now referred to as Historic Riggs Field. On October 2,1915, The Gala Day was declared for the dedication of the new athletic grounds, Riggs Field was dedicated prior to the football game with Davidson College. A parade to the formed in front of the main building at 3 p. m. led, in this order, by the Cadet Band, speakers, Athletic Council, Alumni, faculty. Upon entering Riggs Field, the took a C formation and poured forth a thrilling volume of patriotic Tiger yells. Presentation of the field to the Corps of Cadets by Dr. Walter Merritt Riggs followed. Prof. J. W. Gantt, President of the Athletic Association, introduced Dr. Riggs as the man who has more for the athletics at Clemson. It is to be a place for the teaching of the principles of team work, on the crest of the hill stands the main Building which represents the intellectual side of life. In the immediate fore-ground we see the Textile Building, here the brain and hand are trained to work together. Just to our left is the magnificent new Y. M. C. A. Building, standing for the development of spirit, mind, in the immediate vicinity back of us are the churches, which are agents in the influencing of our spiritual natures. Prof. Gantt introduces Mr. H. C, Tillman, Class of 1903 and President of the Clemson Alumni Association, who then christens the new playing field. Stated Tillman, Students who have been and are to be, no matter how much we love other things, therefore, this field should be named for him who has done most for our athletics. Dr. Riggs is not only the father of athletics at Clemson but has coached our teams and it is not alone for gratitude, but for a sense of love and esteem that we name this field

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1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team
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The 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology in American football during the 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. The Golden Tornado, coached by John Heisman in his 14th year as coach, compiled a 9–0 record. Heisman considered the 1917 team his best, and for years it was considered the greatest football team the South had ever produced. The backfield of Albert Hill, Everett Strupper, Joe Guyon, and Judy Harlan led the Golden Tornado, and all four rushed for more than 100 yards in a 48–0 victory over Tulane. During the regular season Georgia Tech defeated strong opponents by large margins, Techs 83–0 victory over Vanderbilt is the worst loss in Vanderbilt history, and its 63–0 defeat of Washington & Lee was the worst loss in W&L history at the time. Tech finished the season by defeating Auburn 68–7, clinching the conference title, Davidson and Auburn were the only teams to score points against Georgia Tech. Because of the American entry into World War I in April, however, Georgia Tech had an increasing enrollment and bright prospects for its football team after its undefeated 1916 season. Losses from the previous seasons team included guard Bob Lang and fullback Tommy Spence, in 1917 football used a one-platoon system, in which players played both offense and defense. Fifteen of the 21 players on the 1917 roster were from the state of Georgia, the teams captain was tackle Walker Big Six Carpenter. Its renowned backfield consisted of quarterback Al Hill, halfback Everett Strupper, halfback Joe Guyon, Coach John Heismans swift backfield used the pre-snap movement of his jump shift offense, and Al Hill led the team in carries. Ev Strupper, arguably the best of the four, was deaf, because of his deafness. When Strupe tried out for the team, he noticed that the quarterback shouted the signals every time he was to carry the ball, realizing that the loud signals would be a tip-off to the opposition, Strupper told Heisman, Coach, those loud signals are absolutely unnecessary. You see when sickness in my kid days brought on this deafness my folks gave me the best instructors obtainable to teach me lip-reading, Heisman recalled how Strupper overcame his deafness, He couldnt hear anything but a regular shout. But he could read your lips like a flash, no lad that ever stepped on a football field had keener eyes than Everett had. The enemy found this out the minute he began looking for openings through which to run the ball. Joe Guyon, the teams best passer, was a Chippewa Indian who was born on the White Earth Indian Reservation, his brother, Guyon had played for Pop Warner at Carlisle, and had to sit out the 1916 season in accordance with conference transfer rules. He ran through opponents, in contrast to Struppers dodging style, Judy Harlan said about Guyon, Once in a while the Indian would come out in Joe, such as the nights Heisman gave us a white football and had us working out under the lights. Thats when Guyon would give out the blood curdling war whoops, the Golden Tornado opened its season on September 29 with a doubleheader in three inches of mud

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1917 Auburn Tigers football team
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The 1917 Auburn Tigers football team represented Auburn University in the 1917 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football season. It was the Tigers 26th season and they competed as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the team was led by head coach Mike Donahue, in his 13th year, and played their home games at Drake Field in Auburn, Alabama. They finished with a record of six wins, two losses and one tie, led by Walter Camp All-America Honorable Mention Moon Ducote, Auburn lost its two games to Davidson and Georgia Tech, widely regarded as the two best teams in the south. Georgia Tech was the souths first national champion, Auburn held undefeated Big Ten champion Ohio State to a scoreless tie. Source,1917 Auburn football schedule The season opened with a 53–0 defeat of Howard, in the second week of play, the Tigers beat Camp Sheridan 13–0. Auburn beat Clemson on Riggs Field 7–0, in a close game, Ducote starred for Auburn and Stumpy Banks starred for Clemson. Auburns starting lineup was Ducote, Caton, Samford, Rogers, Warren, Bonner, Styles, Robinson, Donahue, Creel, Auburn won a tough game with the Mississippi Aggies, winning 13–6. The Aggies score when their tackle, Horton, picked up a fumble, Auburns starting lineup was Styles, Caton, Sizemore, Rogers, Warren, Bonner, Gibson, Ducote, Donahue, Trapp, Revington. Auburns biggest win was 68–0 over Florida, Auburns starting lineup was Creel, Styles, Sizemore, Caton, Warren, Bonner, Gibson, Ducote, Donahue, Trapp, Revington. Davidson, led by Buck Flowers, beat the Tigers 21–7 in an upset and he also prevented Auburn from scoring with a tackle at the goal line. Auburns starting lineup was Esslinger, Styles, Sizemore, Caton, Warren, Bonner, Gibson, Robinson, Donahue, Ducote, the Tigers defeated Dan McGugins Vanderbilt Commodores 31–7. Auburns starting lineup was Gibson, Styles, Sizemore, Caton, Warren, Bonner, Creel, Robinson, Donahue, Ducote, Auburn held undefeated Big Ten champion Ohio State to a scoreless tie less than a week before the Tech game. Ohio State, led by Chic Harley, had been favored 4 or 5 to 1, coach John Heisman and his players were at the game, rooting for the Tigers. Auburn stopped Ohio State inside its 10-yard line five times, Auburns starting lineup was Creel, Styles, Sizemore, Caton, Warren, Bonner, Gibson, Robinson, Donahue, Ducote, Revington. In the seasons final game, Georgia Tech, for years considered the Souths greatest, Tech piled up 472 yards on the ground in 84 rushes and 145 yards in the air. Joe Guyon scored four touchdowns, and Everett Strupper had a 65-yard touchdown run, according to the Atlanta Journal, It was not the length of the run that featured it was the brilliance of it. Without checking his speed Everett knifed the two men completely, running between them and dashing on to a touchdown, in the second quarter, Moon Ducote broke through the line toward the goal with blocking by Pete Bonner and William Donahue. After Guyon dove at Ducote and missed, Guyon gave chase, for Auburns only score Ducote circled around end for 17 yards and lateraled to Donahue, who ran down the sideline for a six-yard touchdown

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1917 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
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The 1917 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1917 college football season. The 1917 season was Dan McGugins 14th year as head coach, the souths first national champion Georgia Tech gave Vanderbilt its biggest loss in school history,83 to 0. Vandy captain Alf Adams praised the Tech team, Techs magnificent machine won easily over Vanderbilt and it was simply the matter of a splendid eleven winning over an unseasoned, inexperienced team. Tech played hard, clean football, and we were surprised to meet such a fair, aggressive team. I think that Vanderbilt could have broken that Tech shift if we had had last years eleven, being outweighed, Vanderbilt could not check the heavy forwards, or open up the line

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Wofford Terriers football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Southern Conference. Woffords first football team was fielded in 1889, the team plays its home games at the 13,000 seat Gibbs Stadium in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The Terriers are coached by Mike Ayers, who is entering his 28th season with the team in 2015, Wofford moved from Division 2 to join the Division 1-AA Southern Conference in the 96-97 season. Since then, Wofford has won 4 Southern Conference Championships, Wofford is typically one of the strongest teams in the Southern Conference every year. Woffords best finish since moving from Division 2 was a trip to the National Semi-finals at Delaware in 2003, brenton Bersin - wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers Wofford has gone to the FCS Playoffs a total of 6 times. In 2003, Wofford appeared in the FCS Playoffs for the first time in school history, in the semi-finals, they lost to the would-be FCS Champions Delaware, and finished the season ranked #3 in the nation. The Terriers moved on to the quarterfinals in 2007 before losing to Richmond and they lost in the opening round to James Madison in 2008. In 2010, they advanced to the National Quarterfinals to face Southern Conference rival Georgia Southern and they were defeated in that game 20-23. Georgia Southern Fans taunted Wofford players, throwing bottles and trash at them. In 2011, they made it to the playoffs, losing to Northern Iowa 21-28 in the second round, in 2012, Wofford dominated visiting New Hampshire, to move on to the Quarterfinals to face would-be champions North Dakota St. Although they had chances to win, they fell 14-7. Woffords Football team has won 4 Southern Conference Championships, the first came in 2003, when Wofford finished 12-2, with a trip to face Delaware in the Division 1-AA Playoff Semifinals. The next championship came in 2007, sharing the championship with Appalachian State, Wofford would also win Conference titles in 2010 and 2012. The Terriers have appeared in the I-AA/FCS playoffs five times with an record of 6–5. The Terriers have appeared in the Division II playoffs two times with an record of 0–2

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1917 Florida Gators football team
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The 1917 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida during the 1917 college football season. The season was Alfred L. Al Busers first of three as the coach of the Florida Gators football team. The 1917 season was a disappointment, Busers 1917 Florida Gators completed their football season with an SIAA conference record of 1–3 and an overall record of 2–4. Coach Buser was a former All-American lineman for the Wisconsin Badgers, captain Rowdy Bill Wilkinson was the teams only returning letterman. Primary source,2015 Florida Gators Football Media Guide, on opening day, Florida came from behind with three touchdowns in the third quarter to beat South Carolina 21–13, the seasons only Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association victory. The starting lineup was Clemmons, Wurtrich, Connell, Wells, Swink, Brannon, Thomas, Fuller, Wilkinson, Ball, tulane overwhelmed the Gators 52–0, several times skirting the ends for long gains. The Gators were frequently penalized for offsides and hurdling, the starting lineup was Clemmons, Wurtrich, Connell, Wells, Otto, Brannon, Thomas, Fuller, Wilkinson, Ball, Lightsey. The Gators extended their winning streak over the Florida Southern Moccasins to four games, after the first ten minutes, Florida replaced its backfield with second-string men. The starting lineup was Clemmons, Wutrich, Swink, Dye, Cornell, Brannon, Thomas, Fuller, Marshall, Leifeste, Florida endured its sixth-straight loss to coach Mike Donahues Auburn team. The Plainsmen had their biggest win on the season over Florida, the starting lineup was Clemmons, Wutrich, Connell, Dye, Otto, Brannon, Thomas, Fuller, Wilkinson, Ball, Fernald. Floridas only score came on a pass, Loomis to Thomas. The starting lineup was Clemmons, Wutrich, Connell, Dye, Otto, Brannon, Thomas, Loomis, Wilkinson, Ball, on Thanksgiving, in the schools first-ever game against the Kentucky Wildcats, Florida lost 52–0. Kentucky used its substitutes by the second half, the starting lineup was Clemmons, Wuthrich, Connell, Dye, Gunn, Brannon, Thomas, Loomis, Wilkinson, Ball, Fernald. Head coach, Al Buser Manager, W. E. Stone Assistant managers, casler, J. W. Dalton University of Florida

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Howard Bulldogs football
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The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Southern Conference. Samfords first football team was fielded in 1902, the team plays its home games at the 6,700 seat Seibert Stadium in Homewood, Alabama. The Bulldogs are coached by Chris Hatcher, bobby Bowden James Bradberry Cortland Finnegan Jimbo Fisher Jaquiski Tartt Fabian Truss Corey White Nick Williams Michael Pierce 2017 at Georgia Official website

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Mississippi College Choctaws football
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The Mississippi College Choctaws football team represents Mississippi College. The schools teams are known as the Choctaws and its major rival is Millsaps College in nearby Jackson. After a more than 40-year hiatus, the two teams meeting on the football field again in 2000. The rivalry is dubbed the Backyard Brawl, the first year of the team was in 1907. The 1921 team was led by Hall of Famer Edwin Goat Hale, official record against all current GSC opponents

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Clemson University
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Clemson University /ˈklɛmsən/ is an American public, coeducational, land-grant and sea-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. As of 2016, Clemson University enrolled a total of 18,599 undergraduate students for the semester and 4,807 graduate students. The cost of tuition and fees is about $14,882 and out-of-state tuition. U. S. News & World Report ranks Clemson University 23rd among all public universities. Clemson University is classified as a highest research activity university, thomas Green Clemson, the universitys founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina statesman and seventh U. S and his decision was largely influenced by future South Carolina Governor Benjamin Tillman. Tillman lobbied the South Carolina General Assembly to create the school as an institution for the state. In November 1889, South Carolina Governor John Peter Richardson III signed the bill, as a result, federal funds for agricultural education from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act and the Hatch Act of 1887 were transferred from South Carolina College to Clemson. Construction of the college began with Hardin Hall in 1890 and then main classroom buildings in 1891, henry Aubrey Strode became the first president of Clemson from 1890 to 1893. Edwin Craighead succeeded Strode in 1893, Clemson Agricultural College formally opened in July 1893 with an initial enrollment of 446. The common curriculum of the first incoming students was English, history, botany, mathematics, physics, until 1955, the college was also an all-white male military school. On May 22,1894 Tillman Hall, the building on campus, was destroyed by a fire. The fire of 1894 consumed the library, classrooms and offices, Tillman Hall was rebuilt in 1894 and still stands today. The first graduating class of Clemson was in 1896 with degrees in mechanical-electrical engineering, Clemsons first football team began in 1896 with trainer Walter Riggs. Henry Hartzog, graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, Hartzog created a textile department in 1898. Clemson became the first Southern school to train textile specialists, Hartzog expanded the curriculum with more industrialization skills such as foundry work, agriculture studies and mechanics. In 1902 a large student walkout over the use of military discipline escalated tensions between students and faculty forcing Hartzog to resign. Patrick Mell succeeded Hartzog from 1902 to 1910, following the resignation of Mell in 1910 former Clemson Tigers football coach Walter Riggs became president of Clemson from 1910 to 1924

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Furman Paladins football
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The Furman Paladins football program is the intercollegiate American football team for the Furman University located in the state of South Carolina. The team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Southern Conference, the schools first football team was fielded in 1889. The team plays its games at the 16,000 seat Paladin Stadium. They are coached by Clay Hendrix, the Furman Paladins have won 13 Southern Conference Championships,1978,1980,1981,1982,1983,1985,1988,1989,1990,1999,2001,2004, and 2013. They were National Champions in 1988 and National Runner–Up in 1985 and 2001

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John Heisman
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John William Heisman was a player and coach of American football, basketball, and baseball, as well as a sportswriter and actor. His 1917 Georgia Tech Golden Tornado were recognized as the national champion and he served as the athletic director at Georgia Tech from 1904 to 1919 and at Rice from 1924 to 1927. While at Georgia Tech, he also was president of the Atlanta Crackers baseball team, fuzzy Woodruff dubbed Heisman the pioneer of Southern football. Heisman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1954 and his entry there notes that Heisman stands only behind Amos Alonzo Stagg, Pop Warner, and Walter Camp as a master innovator of the brand of football of his day. One writer says Heisman, Stagg, and Warner constitute the Football Trinity, the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the seasons most outstanding college football player, is named after him. Heisman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Bavarian German immigrants Sara and he grew up in northwestern Pennsylvania near Titusville, where he played varsity football for Titusville High School from 1884 to 1886, and was salutatorian of his graduating class. Although he was a student, he confessed he was football mad. Heismans father refused to him play at Titusville, calling football bestial. He went on to football as a lineman at Brown University and at the University of Pennsylvania. In constant dread that his immediate teammates—guards weighing 212 and 243—would fall on him and he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1892. In his book Principles of Football, Heisman described his strategy, The coach should be masterful and commanding. He has no time to say please or mister, at times he must be severe, arbitrary, and little short of a czar. Heisman always used a megaphone at practice, Heisman first coached at Oberlin College in 1892. Wrote The Oberlin Review in 1892, Mr. Heisman has entirely remade our football and he has taught us scientific football. Influenced by Yale and Pudge Heffelfinger, Heisman implemented seven-man interference and his best lineman at Oberlin was the half German, half Hawaiian John Henry Wise. Heisman also used a pass and a double pass. Heisman returned to Oberlin in 1894, in 1893 he moved to Buchtel College, where he helped make the first of many permanent alterations to the sport of football. It was then customary for the center to begin a play by rolling the ball backwards, under Heisman, the center began tossing the ball to Clark, a practice that evolved into the snap that today begins every play

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Clemson, South Carolina
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Clemson is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U. S. state of South Carolina. Clemson is home to Clemson University, in 2015 the Princeton Review cited the town of Clemson as ranking #1 in the United States for town-and-gown relations with its resident university, the population of the city was 13,905 at the 2010 census. Clemson is part of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area, most of the city is in Pickens County, which is part of the Greenville-Mauldin-Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. A small portion is in Anderson County, which is part of the Anderson Metropolitan Statistical Area, the city of Clemsons character is largely defined by Clemson University, a large public university that dates to 1889. The university is the center of the city, even though a small multi-block downtown with housing, retail. The community was originally named Calhoun and was renamed Clemson in 1943, although the university provides housing for students, many students live off campus in a wide variety of apartment complexes. Save for the downtown, sidewalks are largely absent, but some streets have bike paths, U. S. Route 123 on the northern end of the city exhibits typical suburban-style shopping center developments. The citys comprehensive plan has a historic preservation component which will become more important as 1950s and 60s buildings acquire historic status. The Clemson Depot, built in 1893, was rehabilitated in 2001 and now houses the chamber of commerce. A road project has closed the station as of 2016, with no completion date. Clemson University was built on Fort Hill Plantation in 1889 and this was home to John C. Calhoun and eventually became the home of Clemson University. Clemson University was built due to the influence of the women in succession of the Fort Hill Plantation and it all began with Floride, Calhoun’s wife, whose mother had originally purchased the estate. Floride became the owner of Fort Hill when her died in 1836. In the meantime, Floride and John C. Calhoun had a daughter named Anna Maria, Anna Maria eventually married Thomas Green Clemson at the age of 21. After their marriage, John C. Calhoun died in 1850, because Anna Maria was the only living child, she inherited a part of Fort Hill when Floride died in 1866. Anna Maria gave Thomas G. Clemson a portion of the property in her will, when she died in 1875, he inherited the plantation. It was Anna Maria who wished to use the land to build a college, so when Thomas Green died in 1888. Clemson is located at 34°41′6″N 82°48′53″W approximately 27 miles west of downtown Greenville and 15 miles north of Anderson, the city is situated near the northwestern corner of South Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains while also on the shores of Lake Hartwell

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Greenville, South Carolina
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Greenville is the county seat of Greenville County in the upstate region of South Carolina, in the United States. The citys mayor is Knox White, who has served in that position since December 1995, with an estimated population of 64,579 as of 2015, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. The population of the area was 400,492 as of 2010. Greenville is the largest city in the Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin Metropolitan Statistical Area, the MSA had a population of 874,869 in 2015, making it the largest in South Carolina and the third largest in the Carolinas. Greenville is the largest city in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Combined Statistical Area, according to United States Census Bureau, the CSA had a population of 1,426,625 as of 2015, making it the largest CSA in the state. The CSA, a 10-county region of northwestern South Carolina, is known as The Upstate, Greenville is located approximately halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina, along Interstate 85, and its metropolitan area also includes Interstates 185 and 385. The land of present-day Greenville was once the ground of the Cherokee which was forbidden to colonists. A wealthy settler from Virginia named Richard Pearis arrived in South Carolina around 1754 trading with Cherokee, Pearis had a child with a Cherokee woman and received about 100,000 acres from the Cherokee around 1770. Pearis established a plantation on the Reedy River called the Great Plains in present-day downtown Greenville, the American Revolution divided the South Carolina country between the Loyalists and Patriots. Pearis supported the Loyalists and together with their allies the Cherokee attacked the Patriots, the Patriots retaliated by burning down Pearis plantation and jailing him in Charleston. Pearis never returned to his plantation but Paris Mountain is named after him, the Treaty of Dewitts Corner in 1777 ceded almost all Cherokee land, including present-day Greenville, to South Carolina. Greenville County was created in 1786 and was named for its physical appearance, however, other sources say Greenville is named after General Nathanael Greene in honor of his service in the American Revolutionary War. Lemuel J. Alston came to Greenville County in 1788 and bought 400 acres, in 1797 Alston used his land holdings to establish a village called Pleasantburg where he also built a stately mansion. Vardry McBee purchased Alstons land in 1816 who then leased the Alston mansion for a summer resort, McBee decided to make the mansion his home in 1835 until his death in 1864. Considered to be the father of Greenville, McBee donated land for many such as churches, academies. Furman University was funded by McBee who helped bring the university to Pleasantburg from Winnsboro, in 1853 McBee and other Greenville County leaders funded a new railroad called the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. Pleasantburg boomed to around 1,000 in the 1850s due to the growth of McBees donations, in 1831 Pleasantburg was incorporated as Greenville. In December 1860 Greenville supported a convention to debate the issue of secession for South Carolina, the Greenville District sent James Furman, William K. Easley, Perry E. Duncan, William H. Campbell, and James P. Harrison as delegates for the convention

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Columbia, South Carolina
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Columbia is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of South Carolina, with a population of 133,803 as of 2015. The city serves as the county seat of Richland County, the name Columbia is a poetic term used for the United States, originating from the name of Christopher Columbus. The city is located approximately 13 miles northwest of the center of South Carolina. It lies at the confluence of the Saluda River and the Broad River, in 1860, the city was the location of the South Carolina Secession Convention, which marked the departure of the first state from the Union in the events leading up to the Civil War. At the time of European encounter, the inhabitants of the area that became Columbia were a people called the Congaree, in May 1540, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto traversed what is now Columbia while moving northward. The expedition produced the earliest written records of the area. From the creation of Columbia by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1786, the Congarees, a frontier fort on the west bank of the Congaree River, was the head of navigation in the Santee River system. A ferry was established by the government in 1754 to connect the fort with the growing settlements on the higher ground on the east bank. Like many other significant early settlements in colonial America, Columbia is on the line from the Piedmont region. The fall line is the spot where a river becomes unnavigable when sailing upstream, State Senator John Lewis Gervais of the town of Ninety Six introduced a bill that was approved by the legislature on March 22,1786, to create a new state capital. There was considerable argument over the name for the new city, according to published accounts, Senator Gervais said he hoped that in this town we should find refuge under the wings of COLUMBIA, for that was the name which he wished it to be called. One legislator insisted on the name Washington, but Columbia won by a vote of 11–7 in the state senate, the site was chosen as the new state capital in 1786, due to its central location in the state. The State Legislature first met there in 1790, after remaining under the direct government of the legislature for the first two decades of its existence, Columbia was incorporated as a village in 1805 and then as a city in 1854. Columbia received a stimulus to development when it was connected in a direct water route to Charleston by the Santee Canal. This canal connected the Santee and Cooper rivers in a 22-mile-long section and it was first chartered in 1786 and completed in 1800, making it one of the earliest canals in the United States. With increased railroad traffic, it ceased operation around 1850, the commissioners designed a town of 400 blocks in a 2-mile square along the river. The blocks were divided into lots of 0.5 acres and sold to speculators, buyers had to build a house at least 30 feet long and 18 feet wide within three years or face an annual 5% penalty. The perimeter streets and two streets were 150 feet wide

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Spartanburg, South Carolina
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Spartanburg is the largest city in and the county seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States, and the twelfth largest city by population in the state. Spartanburg has a population of 37,013 and an urban population of 180,786 as of the 2010 census. The Spartanburg Metropolitan Statistical Area, corresponding to Spartanburg County and Union County, had a population of 317,057 as of the 2010-2014 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Spartanburg is the second-largest city in the greater Greenville–Spartanburg–Anderson Combined Statistical Area which has a population of 1,385,045 as of 2014, Spartanburg was formed in 1785 and was named after a local militia called the Spartan Regiment in the American Revolutionary War. The Spartan Regiment, commanded by Andrew Pickens, participated in the nearby Battle of Cowpens, in 1831, Spartanburg was incorporated, later becoming known as the Hub City due to the railroad lines forming wheel hub shapes in the area. Around 40 textile mills were established in the late 1800s and early 1900s, during World War I Camp Wadsworth was used to train 100,000 soldiers for the war. Camp Croft also trained soldiers during World War II and is now called Croft State Park, by the 1950s, mills began to decline as wages and the automobile industry increased. BMW US Manufacturing Company, BMWs only North American manufacturing plant, was established in 1992. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 19.2 square miles, of which 19.1 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles. The city of Spartanburg has a subtropical climate with long, hot and humid summers. The average annual temperature is 61.6 °F, in the summer season from June through September, average highs are in the 80s to low 90s F, while in the winter months average highs are in the mid 50s F. Annual rainfall is fairly evenly throughout the whole year. Spartanburg sees very little snowfall, with the average being only 1.4 inches. Average precipitation is 51.3 inches and the growing season is 231 days. Lawson’s Fork Creek, a tributary of the Pacolet River, was known for its plentiful wildlife. Parks and woodlands line much of its banks, and rocky shoals and it stretches from the northern end of the county to the eastern end, where it empties into the Pacolet. The Cottonwood Trail is a trail located in the Edwin M. Griffin Nature Preserve that runs along part of Lawson’s Fork Creek. The trail includes picnic areas, a path over an extensive wetlands area

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Orangeburg, South Carolina
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Orangeburg, also known as The Garden City, is the principal city in and the county seat of Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States. The population of the city was 13,964 according to the 2010 United States census, the city is located 37 miles southeast of Columbia, on the north fork of the Edisto River in the Piedmont area. The city is enlivened by yearly additions of college students at two major universities, Claflin University in 2014 was ranked as the best liberal arts college in the state and the top HBCU in the country by Washington Monthly. South Carolina State University is noted for having the only undergraduate nuclear engineering program in the state, and the only masters of science degree in transportation in the state. In 1998 the university was designated by the U. S. Congress and the USDOT as one of 33 University Transportation Centers in the nation, european settlement in this area started in 1704 when George Sterling set up a post here for fur trade with Indians. In 1735, a colony of 200 Swiss, German and Dutch immigrants formed a community near the banks of the North Edisto River, the site was attractive because of the fertile soil and the abundance of wildlife. The river provided the all-important transportation waterway to the port of Charleston on the Atlantic coast for the agriculture and lumber products. The town soon became a well-established and successful colony, composed chiefly of small yeomen farmers, orangeburgs first church was established by a German Lutheran congregation. It later identified as an Anglican Church, which was the established church, the church building was erected prior to 1763 in the center of the village, it was destroyed by fighting during the Revolutionary War. A new church was built, during the Civil War, it was used as a hospital by General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march through with Union forces. After the American Revolution, the character of the county changed dramatically, invention by Eli Whitney of a mass-produced cotton gin for processing short-staple or green seed cotton made this type of cotton profitable. It was easily grown in the areas, and the county was rapidly developed into large cotton plantations. Agricultural labor was provided by enslaved African Americans, many brought into the area in a migration from the coastal areas or the Upper South via the domestic slave trade. Slaves became the majority of population in the county and city, efforts by blacks to regain civil rights increased in the postwar period after World War II. In the 1960s, Orangeburg was a center of Civil Rights Movement activities by students from both Claflin College and South Carolina State College as well as black residents of the city. After the US Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declaring segregation in schools to be unconstitutional, local blacks sought integration of local schools in 1956. Whites retaliated economically, sometimes firing activists or evicting them from rental housing, College students came to their support with hunger strikes, boycotts, and mass marches. In 1960, over 400 students were arrested on sit-ins and integration marches organized by the Congress of Racial Equality, in August 1963, the Orangeburg Freedom Movement, chaired by Dr. Harlowe Caldwell of the NAACP, submitted 10 pro-integration demands to the Orangeburg Mayor and City Council

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Jacksonville, Florida
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Jacksonville is a seaport city and the seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. With an estimated 868,031 residents as of 2015, Jacksonville is the most populous city in both the state of Florida and the southeastern United States. It is estimated to be the 12th most populous city in the United States and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,603,497 and is the 34th largest in the United States and fourth largest in the state of Florida. The city is situated on the banks of the St. Johns River, in the First Coast region of North Florida, prior to European settlement, the Jacksonville area was inhabited by Native American people known as the Timucua. In 1564, the French established the colony of Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns River. In 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain, Jacksonville is the cultural, commercial and financial center of North Florida. A major military and civilian deep-water port, the citys riverine location supports two United States Navy bases and the Port of Jacksonville, Floridas third largest seaport. The two US Navy bases, Blount Island Command and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Jacksonville is also home to several colleges and universities, including University of North Florida, Jacksonville University and Florida State College at Jacksonville. The area of the city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years. In the 16th century, the beginning of the era, the region was inhabited by the Mocama. At the time of contact with Europeans, all Mocama villages in present-day Jacksonville were part of the powerful chiefdom known as the Saturiwa, centered around the mouth of the St. Johns River. One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville, French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River in 1562 calling it the River of May because he discovered it in May. Ribault erected a column near present-day Jacksonville claiming the newly discovered land for France. In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement, Fort Caroline, philip II of Spain ordered Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to protect the interest of Spain by attacking the French presence at Fort Caroline. On September 20,1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, the Spanish renamed the fort San Mateo, and following the ejection of the French, St. Augustines position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified. The location of Fort Caroline is subject to debate but a reconstruction of the fort was established on the St. Johns River in 1964. Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763 after the French and Indian War, the British introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo and fruits as well the export of lumber

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1917 Davidson Wildcats football team
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The 1917 Davidson Wildcats football team represented Davidson University in the 1917 college football season. Led by third year coach Bill Fetzer, the Wildcats competed as a member of the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association, despite a record of 6–4, some would call Davidson the second best southern team that year. Following the Auburn game the Davidson team was first referred to as the Wildcats, the team included a 17-year-old Buck Flowers, and two other All-Southerns in Wooly Grey and captain Georgie King. The backfield consisted of Flowers, quarterback Henry Spann, halfback Jack Black, Davidson scored the most on the souths first national champion – Georgia Tech, for many years considered the greatest football team the South ever produced, in a 32 to 10 loss. This was the only game none of Techs backs gained 100 yards rushing, Tech only led 6 to 3 until Everett Strupper broke open the game in the second half. Davidson got desperate and tried the pass, getting to within the 15-yard line, walker Carpenter broke through the line and got a 10-yard loss. Davidson captain Georgie King said “I consider Georgia Tech the best football team I have ever played against or ever expect to play against. ”Auburn was involved in of the great upsets in Southern football history as the Wildcats bested the Auburn Tigers 21–7. Davidson beat Clemson 21–9 on a soggy field, tackle Douglas Elliott broke his leg below the knee in the second quarter. King scored two touchdowns and Flowers another, clemsons score followed a kick return by Stumpy Banks to the 4-yard line. The starting lineup was King, Shaw, Gray, D. Crouch, McMaster, Elliott, Roberts, Spann, McAlester, Thomas, Burns

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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Charlotte /ˈʃɑːrlət/ is the largest city in the state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and the second-largest city in the southeastern United States, just behind Jacksonville, Charlotte is the third-fastest growing major city in the United States. In 2014 the estimated population of Charlotte according to the U. S. Census Bureau was 809,958, the Charlotte metropolitan area ranks 22nd-largest in the U. S. and had a 2014 population of 2,380,314. The Charlotte metropolitan area is part of a sixteen-county market region or combined statistical area with a 2014 U. S. Census population estimate of 2,537,990, residents of Charlotte are referred to as Charlotteans. It is listed as a global city by the Globalization. Charlotte Douglas International Airport is an international hub, and was ranked the 23rd-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic in 2013. Charlotte has a subtropical climate. The city is located several miles east of the Catawba River and southeast of Lake Norman, Lake Wylie and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller man-made lakes located near the city. The Catawba Native Americans were the first to settle Mecklenburg County and were first recorded in European records around 1567, by 1759 half the Catawba tribe had been killed by smallpox. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, Mecklenburg County was initially part of Bath County of New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Bladen County in 1734, Mecklenburg County formed from Anson County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, with Cabarrus County formed from Mecklenburg and these areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Carolina known as the Salisbury District. The area that is now Charlotte was settled by people of European descent around 1755, Thomas Polk, who later married Thomas Spratts daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native American trading paths between the Yadkin and Catawba rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road, within decades of Polks settling, the area grew to become Charlotte Town, incorporating in 1768. The crossroads, perched atop the Piedmont landscape, became the heart of Uptown Charlotte, in 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became Tryon Street, in honor of William Tryon, the intersection of Trade and Tryon—commonly known today as Trade & Tryon, or simply The Square—is more properly called Independence Square. While surveying the boundary between the Carolinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Charlotte Town, whose five or six houses were very ordinary built of logs, local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Mecklenburg Resolves, more popularly known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. While not a declaration of independence from British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the American Revolution

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Memorial Stadium (Clemson)
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Frank Howard Field at Clemson Memorial Stadium, popularly known as Death Valley, is home to the Clemson Tigers, an NCAA Division I FBS football team, located in Clemson, South Carolina. Built in 1941–1942, the stadium has seen throughout the years, with the most recent being the WestZone. Prior to the completion of Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte, Memorial Stadium served as the venue for games of the Carolina Panthers NFL team. Currently, the stadium is the largest in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the stadium was constructed against the wishes of the late and former Clemson Head Coach Jess Neely. Just before leaving for Rice University after the 1939 season, he told Frank Howard, put about 10,000 seats behind the YMCA. Despite this, the University decided it was time to build a stadium and they chose to build in the valley in the western part of campus. On April 3,1941, the South Carolina General Assembly ratified an act authorizing a $150,000 bond issue for the new stadium, and the bill went to Governor Burnet R. Maybank for signature. The original 20,500 seat stadium—the lower half of the current facilitys south grandstand—was constructed for $125,000 or $6.25 a seat. The stadium was designed by Carl Lee of Charlotte, N. C. a Clemson graduate, Class of 1908, on September 19,1942, Memorial Stadium was opened with a 32-13 victory over Presbyterian College. Much of the construction of the stadium was done by scholarship athletes. In fact, the first staking out of the stadium was done by A. N. Cameron and Hugh Webb, in 1958,18,000 sideline seats were added and in 1960,5,658 west end zone seats were added in response to increasing attendance. The original cedar wood seating was replaced in 1972 by aluminum seats, as attendance continued to skyrocket, an upper deck was added to each side of the stadium. The south upper deck was added in 1978 and the upper deck in 1983. This put the capacity over 80,000, which made it one of the largest on campus stadiums in the United States. The most recent expansion started in 2004 and continued through 2009, the first phase of the WestZone project closed in the west endzone of Death Valley, added new luxury box and club seating, and completely renovated the locker rooms. The stadiums maximum capacity is 81,500 but has seated crowds as large as 86,092, on January 14,2011, Clemson announced a new $50 million athletic building plan. Facility improvements for football will include building a practice facility. The indoor practice facility, which will be located where the current practice fields are, will feature an artificial turf football field

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Textile Bowl
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The rivalry game has been known as the Textile Bowl since 1981. The two universities are founding members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and both have competed in the ACCs Atlantic Division since the conference initiated divisional play, the rivalry is usually considered good-natured due to how similar the two universities are in terms of mission, academics, and fans. The rivalry has been played annually since 1971, in the days and weeks leading up to the game each year, both universities host special programs and events promoting each others textile programs. In recent years, students from Clemson go on visits of the North Carolina State campus in Raleigh, NC and vice versa

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Tiger Rag
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Tiger Rag is a jazz standard, originally recorded and copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. It is one of the most recorded jazz compositions of all time, in 2003, the 1918 ODJB recording of Tiger Rag was placed on the U. S. Library of Congress National Recording Registry, the Aeolian Vocalion sides did not sell well, as they were recorded in a vertical format becoming obsolete at the time which could not be played successfully on most contemporary phonographs. The song was copyrighted, published, and credited to bandmembers Nick LaRocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, harry DaCosta later wrote lyrics to the instrumental when it became a million-seller and a No.1 national hit for The Mills Brothers in 1931. Other New Orleans musicians claimed, however, that the tune or at least portions of it had been a standard in the city even before. Some others even copyrighted the same melody or close variations on it under their own names, including Ray Lopez under the title Weary Weasel and Johnny DeDroit under the title Number Two Blues. A number of veterans of Papa Jack Laines band said the tune had been known in New Orleans as Number Two long before the Dixieland Jass Band copyrighted it, in one interview, Papa Jack Laine said that the actual composer of the number was Achille Baquet. Punch Miller claimed to have originated the cornet & trombone breaks with Jack Carey, jelly Roll Morton also claimed to have written the tune, basing part of it on his jazzed up version of an old French quadrille. This appears to be the earliest dated reference to this tune and it is noted that both Larry Shields, and Ray Lopez, who also have claimed composition of this tune often played in Watzkes band c. Frank Tirro states in Jazz, A History, Morton claims credit for transforming a French quadrille that was performed in different meters into Tiger Rag. According to writer Samuel Charters, Tiger Rag was worked out by the Jack Carey Band, the work was known as Jack Carey by the black musicians of the city and as Nigger #2 by the white. It was compiled when Jacks brother Thomas, Papa Mutt, pulled the first strain from a book of quadrilles. The band evolved the second and third strains in order to show off the clarinetist, George Boyd, and the strain was worked out by Jack, a trombonist. While the exact details are unclear, it seems that at least something similar to Tiger Rag or various strains of it were played in New Orleans before the Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded it, how close these were to the Bands recording is a matter of speculation. After the success of the Original Dixieland Jass Band recordings, the tune gained national popularity, dance band and march orchestrations were published for the benefit of bands that couldnt get the hang of the new jazz music. Hundreds of recordings of the tune appeared in the late 1910s, among the more notable is the New Orleans Rhythm Kings version with a clarinet solo by Leon Roppolo. The ubiquitous tune even echoed around the ruins of Chichen Itza in the 1920s, with the coming of sound film, it often appeared on soundtracks of both live action movies and animated cartoons when something very energetic was wanted. The Canadian Brass tuba player Chuck Daellenbach has become associated with Luther Hendersons Tuba Tiger Rag

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1896 Clemson Tigers football team
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The 1896 Clemson Tigers football team represented Clemson Agricultural College in the 1896 college football season. Professor Walter Riggs brought the game to Clemson from his alma mater, Auburn, the Tigers completed their first season with a record of 2–1, with wins over upstate neighboring colleges Furman and Wofford, and a loss in the first installment of the rivalry with South Carolina. All games were played in the schools home city. The rivalry matchup with South Carolina was held on Thursday morning at the South Carolina state fair, Riggs served as the teams coach while R. G. Hamilton was the first captain. Clemson states these were the starting players